Timeline of the revolution

  • Marquis de Lafayette

    Marquis de Lafayette
    Marquis lafayettwas a general and fought in the revolutionary war.
  • Concord

    Concord
    on April 18th 1775 Paul Revere Samuel ad that 700 Britishannounced that 700 British troops we're headed for Concord after that they prepared signals for the towns so that they know that the British were coming.
  • Lexington

    Lexington
    On April 19, 1775 , the redcoats went to Lexington to battle minutemen.to seize illegal weapons. This was known as thebfirst battle of the revolutionary war.
  • Philadelphia

    Philadelphia
    On May 1775 ,colonial leaders debated whether to reconcileWitham Great Britain and at the end they decided to refer to George Washington as the commander of the militia.
  • Bunker Hill

    Bunker Hill
    general Gage sent British soldiers to strike militiamen on June 17th 1775 the war ended badly and on July 8th Congress wanted peace between Britain and the colonies.
  • New York

    New York
    In 1776 the British wanted to seize New York with 32,000 soldiers and the Continental Army tried to defend New York in late August.
  • Trenton

    Trenton
    General George Washington's army crossed the icy Delaware on Christmas Day 1776 and won two crucial battles of the American Revolution. In the Battle of Trenton on December 26.
  • Saratoga

    Saratoga
    General Burgoyne wanted to lead an army but the American troops surrounded him at saragota and he surrendered this was one of the most important events during the Revolutionary War.
  • Valley Forge

    Valley Forge
    Valley Forge was a military camp where the American Continental Army spent the winter of 1777–78 during the American Revolutionary War and ran low on supplies and food. More than 2,000 soldiers died.
  • 1778

    1778
    1778 the French signed an alliance with the Americans in February.
  • Yorktown

    Yorktown
    On this day in 1781, General George Washington, commanding a force of 17,000 French and Continential troops to fight against British General Lord Charles Cornwallis in the late 1781 he surrendered.
  • Treaty of Paris

    Treaty of Paris
    The Treaty of Paris of 1783, They negotiated between the United States and Great Britain this ended the revolutionary war and confirmed Americans independence. .